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ScarletBea@scarletbea.bsky.social |
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* Fantasy reader, always + non-fiction
* Admin at the Fantasy & Beyond forum (fantasyandbeyond.net/)
* Adopted Yorkshire lass
* Striving for a better world
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ScarletBea
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2024-29. Women who think too much, by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema - 4/5 Great approach to explaining overthinking/"thoughts rumination", it provides many useful techniques to stop it 💙📚
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ScarletBea
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Gawd, I hate when workers blast their radios to the entire street! I was very lucky that the plumber who did my bathroom a few years ago didn't have one, otherwise I'd have gone crazy, haha
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ScarletBea
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I really enjoyed reading the extracts from Compass' "New Settlement" project in this month's Byline Times. They gave concrete actions to improve the country and showed specific examples from several UK regions/other countries of how that is already working. There's hope!
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ScarletBea
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By the way, are you the Joanne Hall who edited "Fight like a girl"? I don't normally read short stories, but I got that one, it's got great stories!!
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ScarletBea
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I worry too, especially when I see how many % of votes they got in my region - people who hate me and don't want me here 😢 Of course if I ever met one, they'd tell me "Oh we don't mean *you*" as I've heard so often since brexit, as if that's reassuring....
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ScarletBea
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Side note: yay Placebo! 😀
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ScarletBea
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I so wanted to be able to vote today 😢
Everyone, please vote for me!
#GTTO
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ScarletBea
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2024-28. In Memoriam, by Alice Winn - 5/5 I hardly ever read non-SFF but I loved this book! It's about World War I, and british boarding schools, and class/privilege on that generation, and finally, at the core, it's a love story between two young men who live through it all. 💙📚
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ScarletBea
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I choose to see green shoots of optimism in this article... (after feeling miserable with the Google news on this issue)
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ScarletBea
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And this article is included in this week's newsletter as well! 😀
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ScarletBea
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Thanks, I knew that. I was very happy about it, I don't think there are enough standalones in fantasy, for me, haha I also loved your other books 💙 (the 5+1 of Lady Trent and granddaughter - who should have more adventures!)
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ScarletBea
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Me too!!
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Tom Gauld
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I've made a new screenprint!
It is a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies available now at my shop: www.tomgauld.com/shop
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ScarletBea
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The good thing is that it can change in 5 minutes 😁 (and then change back again...)
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ScarletBea
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@abraham.bsky.social : the funny thing about your book is that I haven't read the first one yet; I'm buying each one and waiting until the trilogy is complete to read them all in one go - I loved both your previous series, so I'm going on trust 😁
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ScarletBea
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Latest book haul from my great local independent, Read-Holmfirth. Truly, death by TBR....
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ScarletBea
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Lovely photos, and you look really important and smart with the robes, Dr. Munro 😄
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ScarletBea
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2024-27. The book that wouldn't burn, by Mark Lawrence (@marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social) - 5/5
This is now my 2nd favourite of his trilogies, I loved it!
Themes of time, permanence, conflict+compromise, the relevance of civilisations, handled in a very personal way and leaving a lasting impact.
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ScarletBea
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Wow 😄 Are you there for a special event?
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ScarletBea
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When you have to get a crash course on how certain things work in a country where you haven't lived for 20 years, just because your dad has dementia and your mum can't handle them 😢 Honestly, it's very hard to talk 'business' in my mother tongue! (note to self: focus just on what you can control!)
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Katie Mack
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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ScarletBea
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Yay!
For me, each of the 4 books in the series just got better and better 😀
(@devinmadson.bsky.social )
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ScarletBea
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What about Devin Madson?
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ScarletBea
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Sometimes I wonder if you're a ghost 😅 Nobody seems to notice you in real life and you only exist in here.... (seriously, your housemates are the rudest and most selfish people I've ever heard about!!)
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ScarletBea
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Me too 🤭
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ScarletBea
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2024-26. A Bookshop of One's Own, by Jane Cholmeley - 4/5 This is the history of the Silver Moon bookshop in London (1984-2001) told by one of the owners. It reflects the history of women's publishing and lesbian history in that period. Very interesting, and I'm sad I wasn't able to visit. 💙📚
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ScarletBea
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Side note: I love the use of "without" meaning "outside"!
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ScarletBea
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My favourite place pronunciation is still for Slaithwaite: you think you know? You don't, it's Slah-wit, as famous local Jodie Whittaker explains 😀
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ScarletBea
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I live in West Yorkshire and the main streets are all gates haha Most related to directions or King/Queen. I've only seen the Bars in York, but then again, not many towns still have 'proper' gates.
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ScarletBea
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I've always liked "In English place names, street is gate, gate is bar and bar is pub" 😁
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ScarletBea
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Everyone is going 😥
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ScarletBea
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Seen in the Liverpool World Museum - so true, both for big and small things...
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ScarletBea
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In hotel with netflix, watching Heartstopper season 2 and I'm a blubbering mess... I love all the baby gays so much 🥰 And I feel like Mr. Farouk: "when you come out in your late 20s, you miss all the teenage play" Life is so different now...
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ScarletBea
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Last week a colleague and I gave the LGBTQ+ training at my workplace, it went super well! I feel more confident for any future trainings. Of course, being voluntary, we really didn't get those that probably most needed to hear the message...
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ScarletBea
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2024-25. Murdle, by G.T. Karber - 3.5/5 I took my time solving these logic puzzles, but to be honest I never really got into the mystery/plot behind it, it was really just about the puzzles (which I can get much cheaper in simple logic puzzle books at W.H.Smith, haha) 💙📚
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ScarletBea
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I got my win of @shaunalawless.bsky.social's The Words of Kings and Prophets 😀 Thanks!
Don't they look lovely together, my favourite colours
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ScarletBea
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I'm reading The Book That Wouldn't Burn by @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and loving it!!
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David Ho
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Climate deniers claiming that because Earth's climate has changed in the past, anthropogenic climate change isn't real is like saying because everyone dies, murder isn't real.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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First of all, has a person ever looked more mischievous? I wish I knew her. Secondly, this is a miniature portrait from around 1660. It comes with overlays that allow you to change her appearance for fun. Filters from 500 years ago lol!
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ScarletBea
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This, this, and more this!!!
I just watched episode 4 last night as I'm making it last, and the issues handled this season are truly universal.
#WeAreLadyparts forever
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ScarletBea
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Don't, I did the same 😅
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John Bull
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🎶 He was Old Wyckham With a thirst for politics Did PPE at an Oxford College But I had Sky That caught his eye He told me that his wife was loaded I said "Well fill my Kia Rio with a tank of unleaded" He said "Fine" And then in 30 seconds time, he said "I wanna live like common people" 🎶
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ScarletBea
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Haha when I say my full name, in any situation, I always hear it in my mum's voice.
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ScarletBea
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We're back!!! A technical update led to the need of changing something in the code - and with only one of us admins having any knowledge, it was hard to solve. Thanks for understanding, and go take a look, it's a great place to calmly talk Fantasy... and beyond
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ScarletBea
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I've got the sequel at home but I haven't read it yet, I'm waiting for book 3 to be published and then I'll read the trilogy in one go 😁 (book 1 again, the others for the first time)
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ScarletBea
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The Unbroken, by C.L. Clark The Black Coast, by Mike Brooks
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2024-24. The Last Passenger, by Will Dean - 1/5 Sorry, not for me (part of a book bundle I won). It started well, mysteriously, then the premise turned completely and it became an awful book, for people who like torture/horror. I've seen ratings between DNF and 5, so it will appeal to some... 📚💙
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2024-23. Alonement, by Francesca Specter - 4/5 Celebrating the virtues of being alone (for everyone, single or not), this was always going to be close to my heart: even though I'm way ahead in the journey, I still managed to find really good tips and challenges, so I do recommend it! 💙📚
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ScarletBea
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I knew I'd seen this recently! I just went to check and @joeabercrombie.bsky.social's Age of Madness books (at least paperbacks) have got a credits page with the 'behind the scenes' people!
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